Meet the Team

Nurses

Our nurses are all highly qualified and have a wide variety of skills and specialty qualifications. Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

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Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, smoking cessation, assist doctors with minor surgery, NHS Health Checks and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

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Practice Based Pharmacists

We employ a team of practice based pharmacists to handle a variety of medication related queries and assist with medication reviews.

Management Team

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Administration Team

The administration team provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with patient records and medical reports along with coding of all incoming correspondence onto the medical records.

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Reception Team

The Reception team is led by our Reception Managers, Beccy & Allison.  Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for making appointments, collection of prescriptions and correspondence from main reception.  They also perform other important tasks such as new registrations, dealing with incoming and outgoing patient records, and attaching/scanning electronic hospital letters to patient medical records. 

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Secretarial Team

The secretarial team provide an important link for patients with the practice and are a key contact point for medical enquiries. They carry out important tasks including referral letters, secretarial tasks for the doctors, liaising with hospitals, mental health teams and clinicians allied to the practice such as district nurses, health visitors.  The secretaries are assigned to named GPs at Ashfield.

Community Nurses

We have a team of attached district nurses who provide nursing care for genuinely housebound patients, and in addition run a specialised leg ulcer and vascular assessment clinic.

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.